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I don't buy this argument. Historically, people in the countries that now have low fertility rates were much poorer and yet were having far more children. In
by sneed_chucker 3y ago
I don't buy this argument.
Historically, people in the countries that now have low fertility rates were much poorer and yet were having far more children.
In fact, the countries with the highest fertility rates globally are very poor.
- Timon3 3y agoHistorically, poor people's children started being "profitable" (as in doing more work than they take) much more quickly - they were raised communally (spreading the required work evenly), and they started working and helping earlier. This made having many children a legitimate strategy to deal with poverty. This has completely turned around - community is almost non-existent, and children will really only be "profitable" once they are adults. The situations are simply too different for your argument to make sense.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoFair point, but I think you also overestimate how many people make decisions using actual cost-benefit analysis.